Sundar Pichai: Don't Let Digital Divide Become AI Divide, India Key to Google's AI Future

• Google CEO Sundar Pichai emphasized that the world cannot afford an 'AI divide' and called for global collaboration among governments, companies, and societies.
• Pichai positioned India at the heart of Google’s next wave of AI investment, highlighting AI as the biggest platform shift of our lifetimes.
• Google is establishing a full-stack AI hub in Visakhapatnam as part of a $15 billion infrastructure commitment in India, featuring gigawatt-scale compute and a new international subsea cable gateway.
• Google is expanding global connectivity with new subsea fiber systems linking the US and India under its “America-India Connect” initiative.
• Pichai stressed the importance of responsible innovation, citing AlphaFold's impact on drug discovery and Google's AI-powered monsoon forecasts for Indian farmers, and announced a new AI Professional Certificate program.